If you are looking for a good book to read this holiday season, I recommend Finding the Mother Tree. Suzanne Simard grew up in the gigantic forests of British Columbia and later became a forestry scientist who turned our paradigms about healthy forests upside down.
This book is also a love story. Suzanne Simard has been greatly saddened by the loss of so many forests due to clear cutting and increasing fires in a warming world. She now spends much of her time working with First Nations Tribes on the Canadian West Coast, teaching future forestry students how to regenerate forests as well as sustainably harvest.
Finding the Mother Tree has elaborate sources, pictures, and notes. It was featured and very well received in one of our Biodiversity Deep Dive courses.
Posted: December 27, 2025